The link is to a story where a local council attempted to stop an elderly lady with dementia from going on a cruise. In this instance the CoP found for the human beings. My experience is that it normally finds for the state however bad the arguments for the state happen to be.
Followers of my blog will have seen the NHS question about how many reorganisations have we had. We've yet another. The number of PCTs (Primary Care Trusts) nationally is to halve. This means merging East and North. (and then probably HoB and south). It would be nice if people would stick with one structure. There is a quotation ( Which sadly does not appear to be a true quotation ) We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. But has to have been originated by someone. The web link shown goes through the derivation which appears to be more linked to an anonymous British Soldier WW2 than any Roman or Greek General called by a name perming 2 out of (Gaius, Galus, Petronius and Arbiter). From the...
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sounds to me they must havesome money behined them and were able to use/ find a decent solicitor, not a poxy moron....and extremely 'lucky'....bet tehy dnt get their costs back though or comepnsation, never mind anybody jailed for keeping someone prisoner against their will, threats of violence etc....
so lucky in finding that particular judge....but not even a jury? why not just replace ithe whole 'system' with a random lottery type machine? they only costd a few millions apparently, notbillions, but taxpayer's money doesn't count.....
it's not a coincidence that the worse possible scum get into these positions of power in the council or anywhere else in the first place yknow.....
i do hope this couple have the sense to hop off and try claim asylum somewhere b4 being forced back....